Commerce

The Commerce module — turn content products into sellable items, manage locations and stock, and run every kind of order.

Overview

The Commerce module manages the full lifecycle of business transactions. It connects your content to commerce — turning Products into sellable items — and gives you control over locations, stock, and every kind of order: sales, purchases, transfers, adjustments, and more. For how Commerce fits the rest of the platform, see Core concepts.

The module is built around a few connected ideas.

Products and items

A Product is a content object that describes a good or service — its information, attributes, and properties. Marking a product sellable turns it into an item: it can now go on orders, be tracked in stock, and live at locations.

How an item behaves is set on its Product Template — for example:

• Price & cost — a default price, a standard cost, and the markup between them.
• Stock tracking — whether the item is counted in inventory (with a SKU and a unit of measure like item, box, or pack).
• Variants — multiple SKUs for combinations like size and color.
• Serialization — per-unit attributes or per-unit assignment to a contact (for things like tickets, licenses, or memberships).
• Bundles — an item made up of several other items.

Locations and stock

Locations are the physical or virtual places where inventory is held, sales happen, or stock is transferred — a store, a warehouse, a distribution center.

Stock is the pivot between items and locations: it tracks how much of an item is at a location, across levels like on hand, committed (reserved for orders), available, incoming, reorder point, and safety stock.

Orders

Orders are the core of Commerce — a transaction created from an Order Template. Each order type has an inventory effect:

Order type	What it’s for	Inventory effect
Sales order	Sell goods or services to a customer	Outbound
Purchase order	Buy from a vendor	Inbound
Transfer order	Move inventory between locations	Transfer
Inventory adjustment	Correct stock without a sale or purchase	Inbound or outbound
Return	Take goods back from a sale or purchase	Returns stock
Invoice	Track payment for a sale	None
Pre-order	Carts, estimates, or quotes	None
Opportunity	Track a potential deal	None
Shipping	Fulfillment	None

As an order moves through its workflow (for example New → Completed), it updates the relevant stock levels — reserving, receiving, or releasing inventory.

An order’s contents are its line items — each row carries the item, quantity, unit price, cost, discounts, and taxes, rolled up into the order’s summary. Orders can also link to one another through parent-child relationships, so a quote can become a sales order, which produces an invoice and a transfer for fulfillment.

In this module

Orders

Sales, purchases, transfers, and more — with line items and summaries.

Order Templates

Define each order type’s structure, workflow, and line-item sections.

Inventory

Locations and stock levels across your business.

Price Lists

The prices items sell at.